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Samantha Browning Shea on her debut novel Marrow and fifteen years of being a literary agent
Samantha Browning Shea has been a literary agent for Georges Borchardt for fifteen years, where hse has worked on books that have been received numrerous honors and awards, including the “5 Under 35” honor from the National Book Foundation, the “Best of Young American Novelists” honor from Granta Magazine, the Kirkus Prize, the Whiting Award, the National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize.
Now, with her debut novel, Marrow, Shea is ready to introduce readers to a world that explores femininity and power on a small island off the coast of Maine, where a coven of witches tinkers with fertility.
We caught up with Shea via email, where we asked about being a literary agent, why magic and motherhood interested her, and how Marrow became her debut book.
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Continue reading “First Taste: Ed Park Reads From An Oral History of Atlantis”My Reading Life: Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation Author Sarah Yahm is always inspired by Grace Paley
Sarah Yahm’s debut novel, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation, follows Louise Rackoff as she meets Leon Rosenberg at a Rosh Hashanah dinner in 1974. This sparks a decades-long journey of marriage, motherhood, and meaning. But when Louise is diagnosed with the same degenerative disease that claimed her mother, she makes the radical decision to disappear rather than put her family through her decline. What follows is a deeply moving exploration of grief, connection, and what it means to find beauty in the broken.
Drawing on personal experience and years of work exploring the social meaning of illness, a former educator, oral historian, and documentarian, she lives in Vermont, and her work has appeared in Slate, Bellevue Literary Review, and on NPR.
We asked her to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know her and the books that shaped her story.
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